The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-12-17

THE obligations thus far assumed in the
Panama Canal scheme amount to S33i, ,OOO,.
oOO
The Baroness Burdett-Coutts has just
received bequest OF 50, 100000 from a rel
.,ative.
AN epidemic of typhoid fever prevailsfn
Pitts burgh. Bad water is said to be the
cause.
IT has just been decided in New York
that thirteen-year-o girl can mot
marry.
The porter who takes care of Senator
Leland Stanford's private car receives SEQ
, month.
THERE are twenty-seven red-headed
members of the U. s. House of Repre-
sentatives.
IT is estimated that the American girl
uses annually million dollars worth OF
chewing gum.
A MICHIGAN man is going to buy 1,0Ot
acres of bog land near Chattanooga for
celery plantation.
"LucKY" BALDWIN has engaged Il. w.
Thomas to train his horses at salary OF
$4,000 per annum.
LADY HABBERToN, the English apostle OF
bifurcated skirts, says she is coming to this
country TO lecture.
SKATING is of great antiquity. 1t is first
mentioned in IL work entitled the "Edda, T"
written 500 years ago.
APPLES are so plenty in Norwich, Conn,
that a barrel filed With them is worth nc
more than an empty one
THE Congressional Library at Washing
ton win cover 11l,0O0 square feet, more
than two and half acres.
A RUSSIAN miser is noticed as having
learned to bark in order to save the ex-
pense of keeping watchdog.
New York clergymen are out with pro-
test against spending dollars on the dead
that are needed by the living.
A CABLE to connect China, Japan, Aus.
tralia and the Sandwich Islands directly
with this country is in prospect
DECEMBER dividends, happily, will come
along in good time for Christmas. That is,
they will come for some people.
The Government of the United States
now has 416.64S pensioners. The increase
for the last four months has been over TO-.
co.,
IT is a noticeable fact that NM Clemen.
ceau and Ribot, both prominent French
statesmen, are married to American wo-
men.
A PoUGuKEEPsIE IN. W ferryboat sur.
prised itself by running down a focR OF
wild ducks. The ducks were also sur.
prised.
SIXTEEN school girls perished in the re.
cent burning of u school in Werchobistritz.
kioi, Russia, and yet some people will ask
what's in a name!
1T is said that Herr Most has been forci.
bly, detained in nearly all the prisons in
the civilized world. No wonder he has o
contempt for law.
THE editor of lacerated contemporary
in Webster, Mass, received day or two
ago his seventh horsewhipping at the
hands of an angry woman.
GOVERNOR BoDwELL, of Maine, has grant.
cd Mrs. Elizabeth Colby, of Bingham, au-
thority to solemnize marriages and take
Acknowledgements of deeds.
STEPHNEY BAILEY, of Columbia, IS. c.,
confessed that he murdered three wives.
This bad old man did not confess, however,
until he was at his last gasp
ONE hundred and thirty-one new names
appear ON the roll of the Fiftieth Congress,
compared with one hundred and thirty
nine on that of the Forty-ninth.
PATCHWORK quilt made by children in
the United States, and an Indian shawl,
the gift of Queen Victoria, were buried
with Jenny Lind at her request.
THE compositors In the public printing
office were compelled to swear solemn
'oaths that they would not ''givc away q
word OF the Presidents message
AN expert chicken thief was recently
caught in Cincinnati. His method of rob-
hing poultry yards was to bait hook with
corn, secrete himself and fish for fowls.
AN undertaken Of Nashville is authority
for the statement that, in accordance with
the dying request of lady buried in that
cityrecently, her new bonnet was inferred
with her.
Two men We're arrested on the streets in
Chicago the other day while carrying a
parlor,s with hot fire in it. They had
stolenit from room while the owner was
out getting breakfast.
A PITHY definition of lover is the fol.
lowing: "a lover is man who endeavors
to be more amiable than it is possible for
man to be, and this is the reason why al
most all lovers appear ridiculous"
NEARLY s5000eO in deposits is lying un-
claimed in the Savings Banks of Bos-
ton. 1t belongs 10 387 unknown deposi-
tors, not ono of whom has put in an ap-
pearance at this bank for more than twen-
ty years.
NR A. j. DRExM, Of Philadelphia, in
vested S6O, 600 for his first grandson who
made his bow to an appreciative world the
other day. This will count up nearly u
quarter of million Tor the boy by the time
he becomes voter.
THREE territories that have been knock.
ing 1t the door Of the Union for some time
will probably be admitted to Statehood
during this session Of Congress-, viz:
Washington, Dakota and New Mexico.
A BILL came before the mayor of Con-
cord, N. H., the other day, increasing his
salary by $500 and he at once vetoed the
measure. Virtue was not its only reward,
either for the bill was just ~ promptly
passed over his veto.
lNan after dinner speech. not long ago,
~, Gladstone said; "Whsnever . youth
deSr OF studying political life consults
me respecting = course Of study in the
field " history, always rsfsv him to the
Heys hlstory Of America"